Re: [TCLUG:8266] SMB mounting: a Campus view

[schewe@tcfreenet.org]

On 13 Sep, Kevin Bullock wrote:
> Greetings all--
> 
> I realize this is a little later, but the recent Samba thread happened to
> coincide with an interesting little incident I unwittingly caused on the
> St. John's campus network. I like to have my home directory mounted
> (they've got NT servers :/ except in the CompSci department which is
> filled with SGI machines :D ), whether I'm in Windows or Linux. So I had
> Samba set up. When I was screwing around with configuration one day, I set
> the 'workgroup' option in smb.conf to the workgroup name of our network,
> and thereby made my machine want to be a master browser (read: Bad
> Thing(tm) for the NT servers). When the IT folks traced it back to my dorm
> room, they shut off my port and called me to bring in my machine so they
> could "look at it" -- which they did, and we had a chat about Samba and
> interactions with NT. The Unix admin was there too, and he said he'd never
> heard of the drive-mounting capability in Samba (smbmount -- what version
> added that in? I was surprised).
> 
> So after I got the phone call (and before I took my machine in the next
> day), I purged out (yay dpkg) the daemon/server portions of Samba (smbd,
> nmbd) and just left samba-doc, samba-common, smbmount, and smbclient in
> place.
> 
You can install everything back again, just change /etc/smb.conf like
so:
    local master = no
       os level = 1

Then you won't override the NT boxes.
-- 
Jon Schewe 
http://eggplant.mtu.net/~jpschewe
schewe@tcfreenet.org